Sleigh Bell - ACEO

The weather is getting worst and worst and the days go shortening. This will bring me slowly to my favourite time of the year... Christmas.

It's a long preparation, my mood changes while the wonderful time arrives and I really want it to come.

This is my first paint for the Holy Season and I love it, it's a Wallace's Sleigh Bell, an object I've always loved, a sweet sound, so big to handle, a joyful object!

Sleigh dogs

Feeling a little better I painted this inspired by the coming season.


Watercolor on FAVINI Torchon 350gms/180lbs w/c paper. Painted with Winsor & Newton Artist's paints.

While I was in San Sicario I could see the training set of this wonderful dogs, there's a special feeling between those dogs and their owner that amazes anyone that has the occasion to see both working together.

The world's crisis

I'm not painting in this days, well a couple of little things were made and I'll post it soon, but my mood is following this world crisis and painting is difficult to me when all around I hear bad feelings.

On Tuesday it will start the University course, again, it will be my 3rd year and wasn't sure if I was attending or not, but actually I need a little support and this can come also through the entire group of watercolor artists.

I know that my blog has just a few reader, but if you are here and want to ad a comment it will be very appreciated.

Edible Mushroom ACEO EBSQ WnW

ACEO 2,5 x 3,5 inches - Watercolor on Fabriano Artist's paper.
Original is available at ETSY

A Rainbow of colors - ACEO

SOLD


ACEO 2,5 x 3,5 inches - Watercolor on Fabriano Artist's paper.

Three Carrots - ACEO

ACEO 2,5 x 3,5 inches - Watercolor on Fabriano Artist's paper.

Gone fishing - Andato a pescare.

Watercolor 12 x 7.5 inches

This is a watercolor on Favini 180lbs artist paper. It's painted with Winsor & Newton artist paints. I painted this piece form a reference photo I took this summer while I brought my sons fishing in a mountain lake. We don't have SPAM here in Italy so I had to substitute the plastic tin we had just follow the "strange " title of this month's show. I'm not here to tell how much We all enjoed fishing and eating the trouts this summer, what I really didn't like was to have to put the worms on the hook.!

First time to the Theatre - La prima volta al teatro.

Watercolor on Favini Artist 180lbs paper. 10 x 13 inches.

Viewing an opera performance is one of the things that each of us should do once in their lives. The atmosphere that there you can breathe, is so different from any other place in the world, that almost one can think of being catapulted into an other time in the past. Each time I enter a theater can still remember the first time I went there and I and feel the pleasure of being in a place that will never change.

"Whispers only"

Watercolor 13 x 10 inches on Favini 150lbs artist's paper - Winsor & Newton artist Paints.

Taking inspiration from Patience's art works has been very exiting because her art works are so various that each one could have been the good-one.
I ended onto this three ballet dancers, like Patience I love dance and the "bohemienne" air you breath in theatres.
I liked also Patience's hand ability in sculpting with the papier mache.
I was impressed by those three masks, very similar to those used in the ancient Greek theatre's representations.
I mixed this two subject and I'm really satisfied by the result.

The loot of a walk - To my Granny

This swatercolor is painted on Fabriano 140lbs artist's paper with Winsor & Newton artist paints. When I was a child, I used to spent my summer time with my Grandmother in the south of Italy. Over there ’t was an explosion of flowers colors and fragrances, and always there I learnt to recognize the different flowers that I preferred, passionflowers, oleanders and bougainvilleas of course. Every morning my granny and I went outside for a long walk to reach the center of the town and do our food shopping at the open market, the heat killed me each time, the only relief we had was to stop and sit on a little wall under the warm shadows of the flowered trees. What happened next I’m a bit embarrassed to tell, but she always lengthened her hand and picked a little bunch of flowers for the table. That was the loot of the walk! My Granmother's passed away this winter at the considerable age of 95, and I love to fly with my mind at the time when we could stay longer together.

La mia paletta di colori - My color's palette

this is my color palette, greens on the left browns on the right!

"Stay Cool - Old needs new technologies" "Stai fresco - vecchi bisogni nuove tecnologie" EBSQ

This is a watercolor painted appositely for the EBSQ "cahtch the breeze" show on 5 x7 inches Fabriano 140 lbs Watercolor paper. I used Winsor & Newton watercolor and Indian black ink.

Speaking about fans my mind runs immediately to those painting seen inside the Pyramids or Egyptian tombs where you could see the Pharaoh with his slaves making him air with big fans made of leaves.
Since than, what’s changed?
In two words: nothing and all!
The need to stay cool is the same. The technology how we do that… it is all an other world!
This watercolor represents a portable fan and its battery, an interesting object to handle in those hot days when neither a leaf moves on the trees.

Italian Nursery Rhymes "The beautiful Washer Woman - La bella lavanderina"

This piece is made after an Italian Nursery Rhyme called "La Bella Lavanderina" that translated is: The Beautiful Washerwoman.
All the kids learn this little song at the daycare.
The rhyme talks about a beautiful washer woman that wash the poor people's handkerchief. And she jumps and jumps and makes bows and penitences (don't know why!) in the end she gives kisses to people she loves.

Doodle Squirrel ACEO

This is a squirrel I draw while I was at the telephone with my friend Gabriela... So you see that telephone's chit & chats can produce great works!
A doddle is something that you produce while you're not thinking too much at what you're doing (like while you talk to the telephone or you listen a boring lesson at school) and some times you realize that it is a well produced piece of art.
Obviously

Happy Nun - Unmentionable - La suora allegra

This watercolor was made for this moth EBSQart Show - Unemtionables Underwear
its' a squared art 5.5 x 5.5 inches painted on Arches 14olbs paper.

There's a story below it:
There’s a way to say here in Italy that says:” The dress doesn’t make the monk”…
This paint is inspired by a fact really happened to me when I was a young girl and used to spend some days during the summer with my friend Emanuela at her home near the sea in Tuscany. One day, I was hanging up my bikini after coming home from the beach and saw a nice g-string (quite innovative at that time) hanged there, as neither me, my friend or her mother used to use this kind of underwear I asked who was the owner of this garment. The replay to my question was like a frozen shower to me, because I discovered that the owner was my friend’s aunt that was in vacation there too. What shocked me was that the aunt was quite old and that she was a nun!!! That’s quite unmentionable and if I hadn't seen it with my eyes I would difficult have believed this, in this case we can say: “the dress doesn't make the nun”

Picking cherries in pecetto - Torino Italy

Watercolor on Favini 150 lbs watercolor paper
15 x 12 inches

This is a watercolor I made for a show in my local Univeristy whose Theme was Pecetto and its traditions and landscape.
Well, Pecetto is an ancient village on top of a hill. The zone around is full of cherry trees ans I prefered to focus my imagination on the pick-up moments in spite of most people that pointed on monuments and old walls.
In the background I've sketched the village surrounded above by the Alpes scenary, in the center is the Monviso where the Po river has its source.

I'm experincing new way to paint, more water and lights effects.

Edelweiss from Heaven - Bookmark

I listed this today in e-bay, nothing special but I love bookmarks and I use remnant pieces of paper to do those.

Sweet temptation - ACEO

ACEO 3,5 x 2,5 Watercolor on ARCHES 140 lbs cotton paper - Winsor and Newton artist paints.
I made this ACEO for the April Nibblefest Art Contest (NFAC).

This month's theme is "Reptiles".
I don't like much snake and am lucky enough to live in a snake-free land. We have one only exception and it si vipers. Viper live in mountain, near little rivers, and I take a great care to stay miles away from that danger places!

Medieval Castle - Turin - WIP 7

This is the final paint.
Just want to say that compared to the one before (WIP 6) I enlarged the bushes along the river because were a little too small if compare to the rest of the draw.

Thank-you for looking.

"NEWBORN TO LIFE"

ACEO (size 2,5 x 3,5 inches) on grain satinè 140 lbs ARCHES watercolor paper.painted with Winsor and Newton artist's watercolors.

This ACEO was painted after the Wednesday Watercolor Challange of the Daily Watercolor group.
The theme this week is "LIFE BEGINS"
At first I thought to paint something about the new coming season, Spring is the reborn season and it could have fit fine in it.
But also my younger son Davide is born in this period and Spring remainds me that sweet moment.